Performance Art Initiative | In the Room by the Ocean

Rockland, Maine
July 19 - August 18, 2024

In the Room by the Ocean brings together thirteen artists with ties to Maine that engage performance as part of their ongoing creative practice. The exhibition features a range of works including video, performance-based photography, text, installations, and objects used in or resulting from artistic actions. Addressing themes related to the environment, identity, trauma, mysticism, body, space, materiality, and the everyday, the exhibition highlights current ideas and methods of working that artists are exploring now to offer a close look at performance's important role in contemporary art in Maine.   

In the Room by the Ocean includes new and recent works by Bri Bowman, Isabel Hunter, Tristan Koepke, Tanja Kunz, Kristina Loring, Heather Lyon, Thalassa Raasch, Julie Poitras Santos, Merrilee Schoen, Rori Smith, Augusta Sparks, Heather Sincavage, and Meg Wolfe.

Co-curated with Patricia Brace

Photography by Luke Myers